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I've been working at Caritas for a little over a week, its nice for a change of pace from school. Even if it is a bit more dangerous than my math or English homework

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There's a pounding in my head and instinct tells me it's a heartbeat - close, too close - not an ache in my head or some other body part in the wrong place. It's a girl, I suck in a deep breath trying to catch their scent. Can't be Cordy, and I smell...demons and alcohol and greasy fries

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He starts talking and I lean closer to listen, my heart slamming in my chest with worry at the blood that I could see and how pale he looked to me.

I take a deep breath and look down at my watch, seeing that it was close enough for my time to go home that I could take him. Wait...did he say drive? Oh lord.

"Yeah, I'll...I c-can take you." I pull my apron off and move back down to him, wrapping my arm around him and struggling to pull him to his feet. He was almost dead weight to me and I was glad he had a car to take him to his place; otherwise I didn't think we'd make it.

Nervously, I chew my lip as we stumble out onto the street. "W-where are you p-parked?" And should I tell him now or later that even though I know how to drive, I don't actively do it. I just hope I don't crash.

"Angel?" I move my hand and feel the night air chill my skin from his blood. "Do you need to go to the h-hospital? I can call 911..."

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It all seems a blur as Tara tosses her apron aside and starts to help me up. I'm a little too busy holding in several cries of pain to be of much help to her, but we do manage it somehow. I really don't know how we make it back up the stairs with the gash on my leg throbbing the way it is. That venom must be making me weak or something because normally I can get through this stuff no problem. Or with less of a problem

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Angel assures me that he's okay and I nod, telling him to yell if he needed me before I head into the shower. I turn the water on hot again, needing it to warm up my body before I put on dry clothes

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Slipping under the covers once I'm finished dressing, I can feel the blood loss really kick in. The wooziness is worse, almost as if I'd sat up too quickly rather than lied back. I've really got to get some blood

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He speaks weakly and I wonder for a moment if I heard him right. Blood? What

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I knew it. There's the look

[sexytarawitch]

Okay, so I only got a little lost. But thankfully I managed to get to the market okay, I grabbed a few things to snack on and mentally hoped that Angel liked pasta as I picked up the rest of the things I wanted as well as plenty of juice and flavored coffee. Late night study was bound to happen

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It's not the door opening and closing that wakes me, it's not even the ding of the microwave that does it, or even her voice

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Even his words don't catch me off guard and I shift over more to the edge of the bed, slipping my shoes off and sitting indian style at his feet, my elbows on my thighs as we start talking. "Better is good

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I try not to look at her with too much bafflement at how easily she takes this vampire, blood, everything stuff. Like it's nothing. Like she does this everyday. I don't get it.

I smile as she starts going on about classes. That's cute. Reminds me of...not going there. It's good that she's feeling more relaxed around me, more willing to talk about stuff. I like that.

"I'll give you some before you go, I mean, to make up for what you spent..." I trail off hoping I'm not making her feel like some call girl. I would actually give her money for groceries if I didn't think that would really make her feel like she was being bought and paid for